Bayern it is then. As had seemed likely right from the first 27 seconds of this tie, when David Alaba scored the opening goal in Bavaria last week, the German champions progressed to the semi-finals of the Champions League with a fluid, robust and enjoyably controlled 2-0 victory in Turin to complete a 4-0 win on aggregate.

It would be pushing it to say Bayern swaggered through this tie: they didn't need to, instead exposing the limitations of Antonio Conte's energetic Juventus simply by turning up and being reliably Bayern. Here they were driven on by Bastian Schweinsteiger, shading control of midfield from Andrea Pirlo as the match went on, and by a fine display of lone-centre-forward craft from Mario Mandzukic, scorer of the knockout-blow first goal in Turin.

"If you win 2-0 away against Juventus it is an amazing result," Arjen Robben, a constant menace on the right of midfield, said afterwards. "It was a great performance from us. We'd like to be kept apart [from Borussia Dortmund in the next round] but you don't have a choice in these things. What comes, comes. They are big games with four great teams."

For all Bayern's annihilating dominance in the first leg, this had seemed likely to be a more fraught occasion at the tightly packed Juventus Stadium, a high-spec new-build fortress constructed on the site of the old Stadio Delle Alpi. The 2-0 smothering in Bavaria was a traumatic experience for Italy's trophy club, a night when this self-consciously muscular Juventus was outpressed and outrun as well as outpassed.

Giorgio Chiellini, who spent an anguished, sleepless night afterwards, had promised Juve would present a different face to the world after the most shattering defeat of two years of burgeoning Conte-ism: and Juve were primed to deliver the expected riposte in the opening exchanges here. In the absence of the suspended Arturo Vidal, Pirlo was flanked by a five-man midfield featuring the lopingly muscular Paul Pogba, given a chance to reaffirm his fine progress since graduating from Manchester United's Carling Cup team.

Juventus duly set off at a helter-skelter pace, swarming around the opposition in Conte's favoured blitz-football style, but it was Bayern who created the first real chance after nine minutes. Franck Ribéry's cut-back from the right was almost forced home by Mandzukic at the near post, the Croat's attempted dink skewing wide.

The Italian champions continued to press with more energy than precision on an unremittingly boisterous night inside this steeply banked aluminium bowl, albeit the biggest home cheer of the opening 20 minutes was for Pogba shrugging Ribéry magisterially to the floor in a tussle for the ball.

The moment seemed to spark the home team, and Pirlo in particular, whose contribution until then had been to jog about a little near the centre circle and occasionally give the ball away.

Juve's first real chance arrived shortly afterwards as Philipp Lahm's rash tackle offered Pirlo a free-kick opportunity just outside the penalty area. His powerful drive, delivered from a deceptively meek run-up, rebounded to safety off Manuel Neuer's fists, but Pirlo was finding his groove now, conducting Juve's movements from his deep-playmaker position like a ship's captain at the wheel. A flighted pass to the left put Pogba in for a driven cross that evaded the lurking Fabio Quagliarella as Bayern began to defend deeper.

For all their pressure Juve always seemed a pass short of getting in on goal and before long Ribéry and Bastian Schweinsteiger were again conducting midfield. A goalless first half left Bayern still chugging calmly towards the semi-finals.

Predictably the home team emerged energised after the break, once again hurling themselves into the space around their opponents. Twice Juventus stole possession near the Bayern goal, Quagliarella shooting just wide with the stadium already on its feet. Instead, though, it was the pie slice of Bayern fans in the far left corner under the banner "Red Power" who continued to bounce, and their team who came closest to scoring after 58 minutes. A neat lay-off from Mandzukic, superbly adhesive as the lone striker, found Robben just outside the area. His measured left-foot shot hit the outside of the post.

The goal was coming. Five minutes later Mandzukic was fouled to the right of the Juventus penalty area. Schweinsteiger's free-kick was temptingly whipped in and with Buffon parrying Javi Martinez's flick Mandzukic himself headed home.

Claudio Pizarro's 91st-minute goal, slipping the ball past Gianluigi Buffon after a lovely pass from Schweinsteiger, was a final garnish. Outclassed by one of Europe's current superpowers, Juventus can reflect with some pride on their run to the quarter-finals, including the elimination of England's own European champions at the group stages. Bayern, with plenty in reserve, will take some stopping from here.